Here is the latest carer and mental health news for the month of April 2024 by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie.

April 2024 Carer and Mental Health news <- Read more news items here.

For the April edition on unpaid caring and mental health we have the following news items.

Carer Videos

1. Worcestershire Association of Carers – Jointly App
2. Sutton Carers Centre – Carers Connect Special – Talk with QEF
3. Solihull Carers –  Sajida Golby shares her experiences – Carers Talk Episode 5
4. Helen Walker, Chief Executive at Carers UK, on BBC Breakfast 22 April 2024
5. Care for the Carers (sussex) – A Carer’s Journey
6. UK Parliament – E-petition debate relating to Carer’s Allowance – Monday 22 April
7. Matthew McKenzie – World Parkinson’s Day 2024
8. Thrive at Work – Carers in the workplace Webinar

Latest Carer News

1. Unpaid leave ‘huge step forward for millions of carers’
2. DWP should keep targeting benefit fraud gangs – not disabled people and carers, campaigners say
3. More support for unpaid Carers in Essex
4. Carers Trust partners with healthcare giant to disclose unpaid carers’ challenges
5. ADASS partners with Carers Trust and Carers UK to unite practice supporting carers
6. The financial, physical and emotional toll of being an unpaid carer
7. Uk Carers Leave Act: A Step Forward, But 70% Say “not Enough”
8. Lives of young Tameside carers depicted in poetry
9. Carer’s Allowance overpayments – what you need to know

Carer Research Papers

1. What works to support carers of older people and older carers? an international evidence map of interventions and outcomes
2. 11 Creating a responsive hospice Admiral nursing service to improve end of life care for patients living with dementia and their carers
3. Experiences of support received by carers of people who are involuntarily admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act: qualitative study of carers’ perspectives

Cancer Awareness updates

1. Supporting carers: Study protocol of a meta-review of psychosocial interventions for carers of people with cancer 
2. Dame Deborah James’s family call for national cancer strategy
3. Skin Cancer Awareness Month: The seven warning signs to look out for and when to seek help from the professionals
4. Check your poo, it could save your life

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

1. Addressing Parkinson’s with Black communities in the UK – Parkinsons UK
2. Black mental health must on the political agenda, new coalition says
3. Speak Up April: An overview of the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF)
4. Black Mental Health Manifesto